Hi Alexander, Thanks! I stumbled upon that last night after figuring out I was confused about what -multiwindow window ment (I didn't realize it precluded having a large background window). Now I can successfully open an x-term in non multiwindow mode and fix my display problem with
startx -- :1 and then from that xterm run either twm & or openbox & and get the environment I want. Thank you so much for helping me out with what was probably a really simple question! Sara On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Sara Gamble wrote: > > > Hi Alexander, > > > > Thanks for putting my mind somewhat at ease! I tried your suggestion of > > using the startx command, but I am still having display problems. When I > > run startx, it still gives me just the single window, even thought I want > > the multiwindow mode that I thought came as a default setting. > > > > I am getting error messages like: > > > > another window manager is already running on screen 0? > > unable to find any unmanaged screens > > This is normal too. You can not run XWin in multiwindow mode and have an > external window manager. You can either use -multiwindow or windowmaker. > > bye > ago > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723 >